The development of communication skills is a key component in any science program. However, students do not see the connections between writing and science. In particular, students lack the enthusiasm when the time comes to write lab reports. Students say that they do not see why they should have to write dry, boring lab reports following an enjoyable hands-on activity or lab. This deepens the perceived disconnection between writing and science. This article describes the action research project conducted by the authors that provided students with alternatives to traditional lab report writing. Students used whatever genre they thought would best communicate what they had learned in a science unit. Basing their project on the work of Grierson, Anson, and Baird (2002), the authors called this project "multigenre writing" because students chose many different formats, such as comic strips and stories, to show what they had learned in a catapult unit. In this project, students had opportunities for physical activity, creative expression, and positive social interaction with peers while working in their small groups on both the hands-on activity and the multigenre writing activity. (Contains 1 figure and 5 online resources.)